Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy

The education is good. All of the staff are very friendly but some of the well being workers are a bit over protective and it sometimes feel like they are helicopter parenting you. The school is covered in a metal fence about 2 and a half meaters tall all the way round and you have to have a key card or have someone at reception press a button to unlock the gate. The scince block is currently non functional because the feeling fell in in a classroom and now they are checking all the glass rooms to see if they are safe. Key stage three and four both have their own feilds to go to at brake and lunch and share a cantine. The food is amazing and we have so many delicious options all at very cheap prices. And all the cutlery and packaging is either recyclable or bio-degradable. The school is also very accommodating for students with disabilities. I myself have autism amd I revive a special pass that allows me to take up to 10 minutes at a time to step outside into the fresh air and calm down if I am feeling overwhelmed in class. I also have the option to take a classmate or a teacher of my choice with me to help calm me down. I am allowed to use the back door in the lunch room so that I don’t have to go in any highly crowded areas and I have weekly meetings with my head of year to talk about if there is anything that they can do to make school accessible for me. They have also mad multiple aggusments in how I ware my uniform to account for my sensory issues. However most school activities occurs at lunch time and do not allow food in the club so usually if it’s either go to a club or eat lunch.

My school is alright it’s very boring tho

The staff tell girls as young as eleven that their knees or shoulders are sexually distracting to the male staff, as if it’s a given that they’re hiring pedophiles. This is especially bad amongst senior staff members. They can talk as much as they like about being mental health champions but at the end of the day they’ll stick an alienating label on you, tell you that ‘you’d better not kill yourself’ and give you no support. Homophobic, sexist, my mental health never really recovered from some of the things said to me here.

The people are really nice and the teachers are good but the outside areas aren’t as good

Not the best, not the worst

On a practical note this school lacks important facilities having too few computers for the students to use. In addition to this they do not have adequate sitting areas for years 7 through to 11 meaning that students have to either stand outside in the rain or sit on the wet floor. Most of the benches they do have are green and covered in mould due to being made out of untreated wood-the schools solution to this? They have attached scrappers to these benches rather than replacing them with clean ones. I have lost count of the number of times i have seen and heard about staff members ripping into students until they are in tears.On top of this the majority of teachers tend to be verbally aggressive and condescending towards students and will target those who dare to step a foot out of line.Despite this they brag about having great mental health services and expect students to feel comfortable talking to them about their troubles. The staff at this school care only for the grades a student achieves with no regard for their wellbeing or happiness. They put too much pressure on students regarding academic achievements and are quick to label any struggling students as lazy. I've known them to attempt to and successfully stop students with high grades from switching schools despite the environment making these students unhappy. Additionally while they do provide bursary funds for students from lower income households they then threaten to withhold funds if said student does not attain high enough grades adding further pressure on to already overworked teenagers.

I was relentlessly bullied for nearly two years and spoke about it to several teachers. When it reached the point of me being scared to come into school, my head of year claimed she “didn’t know” I was being bullied, despite my parents regularly telling her

This school was a great school for my education and most of the teachers were super supportive and helpful. They really do so much to help you get the grades you want and I was given a lot of opportunities here that I wouldn’t have gotten at another school. That being said the social environment at KSHS was awful. Although it is not a private school there is a huge level of snobbery from both students and staff. There is also some discrete homophobia, transphobia and racism at this school such as forcing transitioned students to use their birth assigned toilets. Another issue is that mental health concerns are not always handled in the correct way and often instead of referring students to professionals they seem to stick labels on students with mental illness which are often not accurate.

this school has no benches, we all have to eat our lunch on the ground.

It is known for having the worst mental health within students and it just shows with the staff. I tried to report to the school about my daughter being bullied, instead of doing anything they made her confront her bullies which made it so much worse. Pathetic excuse of a school.

My time at this school was frankly made horrible due to the ignorance of my mental health issues and the horrible people running the school. I swear they are heartless. The teaching is pretty good but there is too much homework and we were pushed too hard to achieve. Bullying was almost never resolved nicely, the school is definitely not diverse at all, and if you are disabled or have mental health issues then you will have the worst time.